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2023-05-12 20:26:11 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

USA reported 1,124,063 COVID deaths https://covid19.who.int/table excess deaths mostly agree with this https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/07/12/excess-mortality-during-the-pandemic-the-role-of-health-insurance/ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm But India & Russia had more unreported pandemic deaths https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05522-2 https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)02796-3/fulltext India had 2 to 10 million excess deaths https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-economist-single-entity?country=~IND https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm5154 https://thewire.in/health/covid-19-excess-deaths-eastern-up-investigation https://thewire.in/health/watch-who-panel-head-counters-unscientific-modi-government-on-indias-covid-death-toll https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/05/09/inconvenient-truth-why-the-modi-govt-is-choosing-denial-as-its-response-to-whos-covid-death-toll https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/health/global-covid-deaths-who-india.html Russia had 1.2 to 1.6 million excess deaths https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-economist-single-entity?country=~RUS + evidence of under-reporting https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9111161/ https://academic.oup.com/jrssig/article/19/2/10/7038317 https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/02/25/are-some-countries-faking-their-covid-19-death-counts

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• USA reported 1,124,063 COVID deaths https://covid19.who.int/table excess deaths mostly agree with this https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/07/12/excess-mortality-during-the-pandemic-the-role-of-health-insurance/ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm But India & Russia had more unreported pandemic deaths https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05522-2 https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)02796-3/fulltext India had 2 to 10 million excess deaths https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-economist-single-entity?country=~IND https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm5154 https://thewire.in/health/covid-19-excess-deaths-eastern-up-investigation https://thewire.in/health/watch-who-panel-head-counters-unscientific-modi-government-on-indias-covid-death-toll https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/05/09/inconvenient-truth-why-the-modi-govt-is-choosing-denial-as-its-response-to-whos-covid-death-toll https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/health/global-covid-deaths-who-india.html Russia had 1.2 to 1.6 million excess deaths https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-economist-single-entity?country=~RUS + evidence of under-reporting https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9111161/ https://academic.oup.com/jrssig/article/19/2/10/7038317 https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/02/25/are-some-countries-faking-their-covid-19-death-counts